Film-transporting box



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Application filed May 5, 1921. Serial 310.4661'984.

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Be it known that I, LORRAINE F. ANDRES,

of Cincinnati, in the county Stateof @1110, have invented a Film-Trans porting Box, of which the following is a transporting moving picture films from place to place and particularly to a methodof sup- 1 in addresses inroutinr of films from one display :pointto another.

In the moving picture'art the transportation of films is one of the greatest annoy ances in connection with the theatrical end -of the business. Each film issent'out from some agency. for a number of displays or showings-usually at different theaters,'after which the film is. returned tothe agencyfor repairs. The] theaters advertise the Varrivals of films on given days of the Week,

and if by. any chancethe prior user does not promptly and correctly ship the box containing the film to the next user, there is likely to be a. dark house. Labels are pasted on the boxes to give mailing directions and are either made out beforehand, and shipped in the boxes or left to the last user of the film to inscribe.

Injpractice the boxes are of metal and securely closed, and come back 'once'every week or so to the distributing point for inspection and repairs. The boxes are used so many times thatrthey become literally covered with pasted labels, sometimes in a large number of thicknesses. and it is easy for one user to insecurely paste on the box the label giving the address of thenext user. It is also a frequent occurence that the boxes get wet and the labels'come loose,

or where a numberof old labels are mounted on top of each other, one of the bottom ones get loose thereby release the topmost one. 7

It is the object of my invention to provide a film box which has a special addressing means, which is foolproof to a large degree, and very safe from accidental loss of any of the labels. 7

This object I accomplishby thatcertain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying draw ngs,

forming part of this specification. 7

My invention relates. to boxes used for;

; away from the plate bearing plates.

The box selected for use with my inven tion is the usual'moving picture film box, having sides 1, a base 2, handles 3 and a hinged lid 4-.

A hole 4* of desired size is cut'in the lid 4, through which hole the address plate is visible. The lid itself fastens down over the loop 5, as in the usual film box. The flanges of the lid engage around the sides of the box, and the top of the lid is spaced away from the upper edge of the box when the lid is closed.

As a protection to the addressing plate, I preferably mount on the upper edges of the box aboard or plate 6, which has a set of nobs or button-like projections 7 formed thereon. These nobs are formed in a pattern slightly larger or about the size of the pasted label which is used with the addressing plate. 7

The addressing plates thin metal, or some other suitable material, which should preferably be imperishable and fit within the flanges of the lid resting on the plate 6 when it is used. In the center of the plates 8 usually'on both sides thereof, are mounted pasted labels or addressing slips 9' upon which the mailing addresses are written by hand.

hen a film box is sent out the film is deposited in the box and the plate 6 set on the upper edge of the box. The desired number of addressing plates are then made up with labels pasted thereon, giving the addresses to be used in routing the film. The lid is then closed down over the addressing plates and plate 6 and locked in place as is the usual practice.

If a film is to go to three theaters and then return to the distributing point, two plates will be used. The first plate will have the first and second addresses, and the second plate Will have the third address and the return address to the distributing agency.

When the plates nobs thereon hold 8 are made up of rest on the plate 6, the the addressing plates 6, so that any moisture for the film heat chance of error.

or sweating on the top of the plate 6 will not come into contact with the label that is turned down, but Will on the contrary be spaced away therefrom. The plate 6 also protects the interior of thegbox 'l'roin danr from moisture that might get in through the holein the box lid.

The first user, when he is through With the lilnrvv'ill scratch off his address label and turn the plate over on which his-label- Was pasted. Th s will give the next address lhe second user \Vill have to follow directlons in is the next up for the third user, although it he is careful to keep the plate the Way it comes terial,

to him, this third address will be found to be on top. All address plates will be numbered before leaving the distrihuter;

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lid provided with denendin flanges, said i. L b

lid having an aperture to expose an adaddressingz plate right side addressing plates will be of thin ma-' so that two or three or them can be some mechanically equivalent Way, and I dressing ta 7 toseat on'the top) edges of the box andbe covered by the lid and flanges, and an ad-,

dress bearing plate adapted to seat-on the plate first referred to and be enclosed between saidplatethe lid and its flanges, said address bearing plate havlng carried thereon alabel bearing an address.

2. A contalner for photographic films and the like, comprising a ho}: having a movable an independent plate adapted lid arovided with de 'endi'n fianeessaich lid having an apertureto expose an address- :ing tag a plate adapted to seat on" the bet: and be covered by the lid and flanges, and an. address bearing plate adapted to seat on the plat'efirst referred to and beenclosed be tween said plate and the lid, said address bearing plate having ca-rried thereon a label bearing an address, and said first mentioned plate having elevated portions thereon to preserve a spacing between it and the addressing-plate, torthe purpose described 7 '3. in a device of the character described,

the combination With a metallic container, a lid thereon hiLVl'TlQj flangedsldes and an apertured top, said 'hd'h'eing spaced'awav from the upper edges of the container, a

plate seated over the edges of the container, and a thln plate mounted on the first "finentinned plate, said last noted thin plate; hearing address tags on its two faces adapted to be exposed through the aperture in the' lid,

said lid being adapted to clarnp down the various plates between it and the edges of the box, as and for the purpose described.

LORRAINE F. ANDRES. 

